Jack J B HutchensJack J. B. Hutchens was born and raised in the Flint Hills of Kansas. He attended Emporia State University where he studied poetry under Phil Heldrich and Christopher Howell. After graduation, he lived in Poland for several years, finding a new home here. When he returned, he completed his PhD in Slavic Literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After teaching Polish literature for several years, he is now a high school teacher of English at Plainfield East High School in Illinois where he lives with his wife Amanda and their daughter Harriet. He is the author of a book of poetry, There/Here: Poems of Journey and Home, and a monograph Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction. Read More Read Less